Rock Point

Rock Point

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New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers enthralls readers with her suspenseful Sharpe & Donovan series. Read the untold story of one of her most beloved characters in this special prequel novella, Rock Point.

Seven years after suffering an unspeakable loss, Finian Bracken is recently out of seminary and leaving Ireland to serve a small parish in the quaint but struggling fishing village of Rock Point, Maine. Here he meets FBI agent Colin Donovan for the first time...and discovers the dangerous secrets he left back home in Ireland. Smugglers are using the Bracken family's old whiskey distillery as cover for their illicit activities--and the violent group isn't going down without a fight.

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Carla Neggers's Bio

New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers is always plotting her next adventurewhether in life or for one of her novels. She wrote her first stories when she climbed her favorite sugar maple with pad and pen at age eleven. Now she is the author of more than sixty novels of romantic suspense and contemporary romance, including her acclaimed Sharpe & Donovan and Swift River Valley series. Her books have sold in over thirty countries, with translations in two dozen languages, and earned awards, rave reviews and the loyalty of readers.

Growing up in rural western Massachusetts with three brothers and three sisters, Carla developed an eye for detail and an enduring love for a good story. "My parents moved to New England just before I was born," says the author. "My father was a Dutch sailor and my mother is from the South. We kids learned about Holland and the Florida Panhandlefaraway places to usthrough stories our parents told on walks in the woods or sitting by the fire."

Carla's curiosity and vivid imagination are key to creating the complex relationships and deep sense of place in her books. At the core of every novel she writes is what Publishers Weekly has called her "flair for creating likeable, believable characters and her keen recognition of the obstacles that can muddle relationships."

Carla sold her first book not long after graduating magna cum laude from Boston University with a degree in journalism. An accomplished musician, she studied with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and freelanced as an arts-and-entertainment reporteralways with a novel in the works. After the birth of her first child, Carla finally worked up the courage to submit a manuscript to an agent. "I would type with my daughter on the blotter next to me," says Carla. "Then she learned to roll over, and I put her on a blanket on the floor!"

When she isn't writing, Carla loves to read, travel, hike, garden and spend time with her large family. Get-togethers at her family's tree farm on the western edge of the Quabbin Reservoir are a favorite. She and her husband, Joe, a native of middle Tennessee, have two grown children and two adorable grandchildren. They are frequent travelers to Ireland and divide their time between Boston and their hilltop home in Vermont, not far from picturesque Quechee Gorge.